Whether you’re working hard or hardly working, the Internet is needed for a lot of what you do—from researching for a paper to distracting yourself on YouTube.  But nothing cuts into your web use quite like the pain of slow connectivity.  If you’re like most people living in the Internet age, chances are you access the web a great deal each day, and you’ve probably also been faced with the annoyance of a slow wireless connection. Unfortunately, if you’re not a total tech wizard, it can start to seem like your only option is to live with the frustrating circumstances of waiting ten minutes for a…

We love cars. Cars have made our lives simpler and easier to manage. We can go longer distances, run errands faster, complete daily tasks quicker, and are able to get from A to B in a shorter amount of time. Simply put, for the majority of us, life would not be the same without our vehicles. Nonetheless, just like everything else in life, cars don’t last forever and as a result, we end up buying a newer vehicle and abandoning the older one in our backyards, etc. This is when nature takes over and turns vehicles into an art-like creation. Discover their beauty with these 10 car photographs below. Thanks…

Have you ever wondered what is done to those who cannot pay for their airplanes? This may sound like a silly question, but there is an actual job where people reclaim your airplane if it is left unpaid. That’s not the only shocking part either, an airplane repo man or woman can earn up to $10,000 to $900,000 per repossessed plane! This is definitely a jaw dropping amount and who knew that such an unusual job even existed? See the list of different weird jobs in the infographic below and find out how much each of them get paid, it just may shock you! …

With a bevy of recognizable names in the online ticket marketplace, such as Stubhub, TicketsNow, and Ticketmaster, ScoreBig entered the fray in 2009, backed with over 8 million dollars in venture capital funding. When I was recently introduced to the site by a friend, I decided to check it out and decide if it was simply another ticket site, or if it was an impressive new idea. ScoreBig basically works like this: It sells tickets for 10-60% off face value, with the added bonus of no service fees, which you have to pay on any other ticket site. This intrigued me, so I purchased tickets to a Warriors…

The visually impaired don’t get a lot of help when it comes to next-gen tech to help them better live autonomous lives. For generations, the most cutting-edge apparatus has been an extendable stick. Whee. But designer Xun Ye is turning all that negligence on its ear with the Origin GPS, the first truly next-gen device for the blind. Okay, so it’s still just an extendable stick, but it is to extendable sticks what Snoop Dogg’s favourite low rider is to a rickshaw. Fitted with a GPS unit that tracks the cane-bearer’s whereabouts, the Origin’s built-in handle mic has only a destination to be spoken into…

The designers at Loft117 and programmer Jason Belmonti have teamed up to tap the Kinect for something that has been suspiciously absent from its ever-growing palette of applications: advertising. Behold the slick, stylish, and interactive ad potential exhibited in this installation, and marvel at what the future might bring. Would you stop and spend more time in front of an ad if you could control the action? Would a slammin’ soundtrack and kaleidoscopic visuals help? I think we can agree that the answer to both questions is a crystal-clear, resonant ‘most likely’. …

Add to your personal list of things that don’t need to exist (everyone keeps one of those, right?) this remote-controlled car, which has the singular distinction of being the world’s fastest. Nic Case designed the Schumacher Mi3 with one purpose in mind: to break the world record for fastest toy car – and boy howdy, has he done exactly that. This $4000 pocket rocket is made of carbon fibre, powered by an 11HP motor connected to a 12-cell battery pack, and travels at a cool 161.76 mph. In the event you’re unaware, that’s really damn fast – perhaps fast enough even that I can’t imagine this thing handling…

Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You’re about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they hope to be the next revolution in in-car audio – and from the looks of things, they’ve pretty much got it in the bag. Soundtracks is a system that takes input from your car to design on the fly a soundtrack that reacts according to the action on the road, as well as the environment in which you’re driving. The resulting synaesthetic experience is nothing short of brilliant What about your favourite tunes? Surely you’re not going to throw your classic jams…

Okay, so the LEGO thing has been played out over the Internet for far too much, and I might have contributed, but there is just something about LEGOs that I can’t get over. It just takes you back to a time when everything was so much simpler. Unfortunately, the idea of turning LEGOs into soap bars might be taking it a bit too far. However, I have a hot tip from an anonymous source who informs me that this soap does offer powerful scrubbing action! If you can read German, you can buy it here….

There is something beautiful about this video, directed by Philip Andelman. It is difficult to explain. Perhaps it is a nod to the quality and passion that one must put in to perform an art so old and — what some might consider — obsolete. We have digital watches, but yet these people measure time much differently than the rest of us. It’s certainly worth witnessing….